فداكارلق

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

فداكار (fedakar) +‎ ـلق (-lık), from Arabic فِدَاء (fidāʔ), Persian کار (kâr), and a native noun-forming suffix.

Noun

فداكارلق • (fedakarlık) (definite accusative فداكارلغی (fedakarlığı), plural فداكارلقلر (fedakarlıklar))

  1. self-sacrifice
  2. devotion
  3. great effort
    • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎, page 129:
      بر ملتت موجودیت و استقلالنی تأمین ایچون قابل تصور اولان تشبثات و فداكارلغی یاپقدن صوكره موفق اولور.
      Bir millet mevcudiyet ve istiklalını temin için kabil tasavvur olan teşebbüsat ve fedakarlığı yaptıktan sonra muvaffak olur.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فداكارلق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 888
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fedakâr”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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